Franz Xaverius Kirchmeier was born in approximately 1785 in Bavaria.
He served in Napoleon's Army and fought against the Russians. He was a soldier in the 3rd Bavarian Infantry (Jäger) Regiment and was captured by the Russians.
Milovidov records that as of 1814 father and two sisters were still living in the Bavarian village of Zweikirchen.
He was settled in the Volga German colony of Anton in the household of Konrad Paul.
Franz Xaverius Kirchenmeier [sic] is recorded there on the 1834 census of Anton in Household No. 93.
He does not appear on the 1857 census of Anton, so is presumed to have died there before 1850.
Milovidov records that Xavier Kirchmeier came from the German town of Zweikirchen.
- 1834 Anton Census (Household No. 93).
- Belousov, S.V. "Prisoners of war of Napoleon's army in the Volga region: the arrangement, content, relationships with the local population." Bulletin of the Samara State University, No. 1 (Samara, Russia: Samara State University, 2006): 48-55.
- Milovidov, B. P. "Prisoners of War of the Napoleonic Army in the Saratov Colonies in 1813-1820: New Documents." (p. 34, #20)
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